IT'S TIME TO RACE!!

April 6, 2005 FSCR Glover Survives Yellow Flag Fever By Rick Anges On an unusually cool April evening 25 Super Late Models were signed in for race #2 of the All-American Challenge Series. With the Sunbelt series running a rain out race in Bronson several drivers had back up’s running for their points. Two of those drivers sat first and second in the points; Shane Sawyer was filling in with leader Wayne Anderson and "Super" Mario Gosselin sporting the 07 was wheeling for Jeff Scofield who sat second. Gosselin is coming off a strong third place finish in the ARCA Series. Dawayne Bryan and Steve Dorer ran identical 14.450 times in qualifying with Bryan being awarded the pole due to his standing in the points. The front row was short lived as the roll of the die inverted the field 6 rows putting Chris Turner and Shane Sawyer on the front row. From the drop of the green flag there was action on the track, as Turners machine appeared to miss a gear sending the field behind him scrambling. James Glover dove low and took the lead with Sawyer right on his back bumper. As Turner and Sawyer drove away from the field the rest of the pack was having a tough time hooking up to the racing surface. Of the first 100 laps 46 were under the caution flag. Rain earlier in the day and seven hard fought features prior made the track tough to hook up to. In a Bristol like run the cautions kept coming right up to the end. The final 3 laps went green and Sawyer made several runs at the leader but wasn’t able to get around as Glover roared green to checkers to take the win. Sawyer collected second place points for Anderson. "Big" Wayne Morris held onto an ill handling car for third, Mike Bresnahan stayed out of trouble for fourth and rounding out the top five was Scot Walters. Gosselin had a rough evening finishing a disappointing 16th for Scofield. William Slack was not to be denied as he roared green to checkers to take the street stock win. "we finally figured it out and the car is really handling" said Slack in the winners circle. David Williamson took second, third was Ron Herd Jr., Greg Krom ran fourth and in fifth Wayne Dove. Once again the Bomber class had the fans on their feet swapping sheet metal and running three and four wide in the 25-lap feature. Jay King took the lead on daring three wide pass coming out of turn two, blazing from third to the top spot. King took the win, Rick Germony also made a great move to finish second, third went to a strong running Jesse Adair, Pete Barr was fourth and in fifth Dave Davis. Dale Shelton took the lead and never looked back taking the trophy home in the Open Wheel feature, Ralph Bowman was second, third went to Bobby Baldwin, Fourth was Timmy Moore and fifth Eric Rudd. Dave Cleary was the class of the field taking his first feature win of the season in the pure stock feature. Once again Duane Best and "Ravishing" Rick Hurley were the show as the duo battled lap after lap for the second spot. Best was able to stick it on the outside to take the second spot, Hurley settled for third. "I always put right side tires on before a race but I didn’t this week and it bit me" Hurley said. Darrin Ellis came home fourth and fifth went to Leonard McCue. ACS SUPER LATE MODELS - AACS 125L Pos Driver (Car) 1 JAMES GLOVER-Mowm,aacs (70) 2 WAYNE ANDERSON-Maacs (84) 3 WAYNE MORRIS-Maacs (98) 4 MIKE BRESNAHAN-Maacs (3) 5 SCOT WALTERS-Maacs (55) 6 JEFF SLOAN-Maacs (31) 7 DAWAYNE BRYAN-Maacs (63) 8 RICHIE ANDERSON-Maacs (51) 9 JASON CROSSEY (17) 10 SEAN LeMASTER-Maacs (8) 11 DENNIS NEIGHBOR JR (82) 12 JOE BOYD-Maacs (5) 13 CHRIS TURNER-Maacs (94) 14 STEVE DORER-Maacs (10) 15 CHRIS FONTAINE-Maacs (47) 16 JEFF SCOFIELD-Maacs (07) 17 JOHN SPADAVECCHIA JR.-Maacs (8X) 18 DAVID POLLEN, JR.-Maacs (88) 19 MARTY PIERCE-Maacs (75) 20 KENNETH GERENA (71) 21 ROBERT YOHO-Maacs (00) 22 ANDREW DYNDUL-Maacs (59) 23 MIKE FINN (6) 24 JOHN JACKSON -Maacs (1) 25 BOBBY COYLE (64) DNS BOMBERS - BOMB 20L Pos Driver (Car) 1 JAY KING (80X) 2 RICK GERMONY (8) 3 JESSE ADAIR (43) 4 PETE BARR (81) 5 DAVID DAVIS (6) 6 CODY GILDER (41) 7 SEAN CAVANAUGH (25) 8 JOHN STEWART (02) 9 MATTHEW BROWN (15) 10 PAUL SIMON (11) 11 JEROME WATLAND (20) 12 DON SLACK (57) 13 SUSAN BASS (78) 14 KENNY GIBSON (23) DNS 15 MICHAEL CROOKS-R (33) DNS DS TRUCKS - DS TRUCKS 25L Pos Driver (Car) 1 JEFF FIRESTINE (93) 2 NICK KING (41) 3 JIM REPPI (57) 4 JIM ALTERIZIO (3) 5 CLINT SNYDER (24) OUTLAW LM - OUTLAW LM Pos Driver (Car) 1 ED KIDD (6) 2 DENNIS NEIGHBOR SR (83) 3 JIM KELLY (56) 4 SCOTT HOLLY (1) 5 PETE COON (27) 6 JAMIE CASSIDY (44) OWM 35 - OWM 35L 11 OR LESS Pos Driver (Car) 1 DALE SHELTON-Mowm (51) 2 RALPH BOWMAN (2) 3 BOBBY BALDWIN-Mowm (4) 4 TIMMY MOORE-Mowm (57) 5 ERIC RUDD-Mowm (12) 6 SEAN MCLAUGHLIN (99) 7 THOMAS GORDON-Mowm (11) 8 BARRY CARLSON-Mowm (3) 9 BRANDON PITTS (14) 10 DENNIS WILSON (42) PURE STOCKS - PS 20L 19 OR LESS Pos Driver (Car) 1 DAVE CLEARY (7) 2 DUANE BEST (67) 3 RICK HURLEY (50) 4 DARRIN ELLIS (71) 5 LENORD McCUE -Mowm,aacs (71X) 6 KEITH THORBIN (58) 7 TYLER LAU (1) 8 TIMM HUTTON (77X) 9 DENNIS HESS (95) 10 JOHN BROWN (6) 11 ERNEST SPARKS (95) 12 EARL CHAMBERS (91) 13 RICHARD McCLOUGH (20) 14 CLIFF HUTTON (64) 15 DAVEN QUERY (44) 16 ALLEN TYSON (5) 17 MARK ZSOLZAI (08) 18 KEN SMITH (11) STREET STOCKS - SS 20L 19 OR LESS Pos Driver (Car) 1 WILLIAM SLACK (57) 2 DAVID WILLIAMSON (12) 3 RON HEARD JR (00) 4 GREGORY KROM (35) 5 WAYNE DOVE (18) 6 TODD FREED, JR. (44T) 7 DAVE BLANCHARD (50) 8 JIMMIE BEST (67) 9 DUANE BEST (3) 10 MARK WRIGHT (15) Have an opinion on this story? Post a message on our Message Board! news@karnac.org or send a letter to the editor!